Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Powderly says that if employers drive out the Knights of Labor anarchy will fellow. Anarchy will get followed very sharply as soon as it shows it's head again.
 On the fourth of August the voters of Texas will vote on six constitutional amend ments, the most important being liquor prohibition clause and the elaborate article recognizing the judiciary of the State. The proposed prohibitory amendment provides for State prohibition except for medical, mechanical, sacramental and scientific pur- poses."
 New Orleans women are, without doubt, the best dressed women to be seen any where, says writer in the New Orleans Pic ayune. We call the careful attention of those interested in the fact that the writer who makes this assertion declares that the New Orleans women never ignore the just claims of economy, "this restraint prevent ing gaudiness."
 Those whose duty it is to manage the Der by railroad affair for the city would do well to remember that bird in the hand is worth several in the bush. In our opinion, the citys interest in the road can easily be kept too long. If the Consolidated road should parallel the Derby or annex the New York and New England the rosy visions which some people are now having wouldn't ma terialize.
 The report of the Seybert commission on spiritualism is very damaging to many of the most noted mediums in this country. The commission tested Dr. Slade, Mrs. Pat tel son, Mrs. Margaretta Fox Kane, Mrs. Maud E. Lord, Pierre Keeler, Dr. Rother- | mel, Mrs. Best, Dr. James V. Mansfield, Mrs. Dr. Eleanor Martin, Mrs. Eliza A. Martin and number of others, not one of whom performed any extraordinary feats, and all of whom used fraud. Yet the commission | say that without at all imputing untrust | worthiness to the testimony of others, we can l only vouch for the facts which we have our. selves observed"
 Herr Fortelka, the inventor of 8 repeating rifle which is attracting good deal of atten | tion among Austrian military men, is a re markable instance of the wonders that car be performed by blind men. During the l first campaign in Bosnia he received bullet | in his right eye, which so affected the .lef' 1 eye that he became totally blind. Yet since his blindness he has invented the magazine rife, micrometer, an apparatus for auto matic mapping, new sort of gunpowder l two machines for the anti oxidation of metals at small cost and number of smaller de vices. "When either great or minute meas l urements are in question:" says Herr For l telka. ssthose who see with their eyes art often wrong, while I, who see with my fin gers, am right" The models of his inven tions have been entirely made by himsel
 with the help of pieces of wood, string ani
 wire.
 The new dependent pension bill which ha
 been prepared by committee of the Grane
 Army is a thorough one. The first section
 relates to dependent parents and require
 simply proof that such parents are withou
 other means of support than their own man
 ual labor or the contributions of those no
 legally bound for their support The secon'
 section provides pension of S12 montl
 for any honorably discharged soldier or sailo
 who served three months and is now suffer
 ing from mental or physical disability no
 the result of his own vicious habits. Tn
 third section grants pension to dependen
 parent, widow or child of any invalid soldie who has died, whether death resulted fror the injury for which the pension was granite
 or otherwise. Tine fourth section imposes
 fine of $500 or imprisonment not exceedin
 two years, or both, for any attorney or ager
 who accepts a greater fee than $10 for secul
 ing pension.